It’s historical. When you get to the Lower East Side after Ellis Island, there’s a ward heeler from Chief Tamany waiting to make you welcome, with a job, first week’s groceries, taking you to the various offices you need to see, and putting you on the fast track to citizenship. If Tamany Hall does that much for you, how can you refuse to vote Democrat a few times on election day. After Tamany Hall went down, the next machine hired the same ward heeler for new arrivals to Brooklyn, Washington Heights, the Bronx, etc. So if everyone’s voting Democrat and extolling the kind deeds that the Democrats do, and nobody is a Republican, you have no perspective. And national politics mean absolutely nothing to an inner city dweller. Then FDR comes along, and the New Deal makes ward heelers obsolete. Now the DNC is the ward heeler, getting everyone through the Depression.
Times have changed. Everyone thought the Orthodox were just temporary, ‘til they got a taste of the good life in America. They stuck together, and in time got wise to the con job. Now we vote Republican.
PS: We have a local Chabad node. I should approach them and sus out where their sentiments lie.Ifit is as you suggest , they may be tremendous allies in the upcoming roadside big-wave rallies for Trump , which I will once again be organizing and leading. I’d love to see’ trait tsit on the rally line !
Forward to the foe!